On Sunday 01 June 2008 21:35:38 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> Without that commitment you well, eventually, get to join the legions of > >> poorly maintained, compromised Linux boxes out there. This hurts > >> everyone, but especially you -- potentially legally, certainly in terms > >> of a lot of work when your ISP (or the police) call up about all that > >> SPAM you have been sending out or those warez you are distributing... > > > > Are you implying that a zombied box can be a legal liability for > > the hapless owner? > > Yep. As one example, consider the case of Julie Amero, who was > convicted for exposing school age children to pornography because of a > compromised PC: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17134607/ > > Also, consider the handful of cases where people have been arrested for > having child pornography on their computers and have offered a defence > of their system being compromised. > > Couple that with the fairly well established (I think) fact that botnet > infections are used for a range of illegal activity including hosting > child pornography.
Clarke 1 notwithstanding http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarke's_three_laws and as an elderly (damn not distinguished) I proclaim your concern/rant unadulterated balderdash The one about: if you build your own packages and don't pay attention then your linux box will contract plague etc. Frankly, no one I know, has ever had, or knows someone who has ever had a compromised linux box. Frankly I doubt if all of SLUG ever has ... Here compromised means: someone has taken control of the machine and is using it for some nepharious purpose eg spam DoS etc James -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
